How Tesco Continues to Win Customer Loyalty

by Terry Hunt, Clive Humby

In Scoring Points, marketing experts Clive Humby and Terry Hunt and journalist Tim Phillips explain how Tesco went from being just one of three grocery chains in Great Britain to the undisputed leader. By creating the world’s leading customer relationship management program, Tesco has learned a lot about what it takes to retain those customers and induce them to spend more. What Tesco has learned from its program can serve as inspiration for others just now launching loyalty programs or

Expand Your Market without Abandoning Your Roots

by Chris Zook

In his previous book, Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how the most enduring growth performers succeeded by focusing and building around one or two well-defined, dominant cores — and how otherwise well-positioned firms sabotaged their growth by prematurely abandoning their core in pursuit of the next “hot” topic. Now, based on extensive research on the growth patterns of thousands of companies worldwide — including CEO interviews with the top 25 growth performer

Fermenting a Business Revolution

by Paul Dolan

In True to Our Roots, winemaker and company president Paul Dolan describes the guiding principles he uses at Fetzer that can help managers in any industry build and grow stronger, more sustainable companies. With an intense commitment to define new business principles for the future, Dolan and Fetzer have taken steps toward proliferating sustainable commerce while leading a management revolution in one of the most competitive industries in the world. True to Our Roots offers a

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How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work

by Laurence Prusak, Don Cohen

Cohen and Prusak explain how to build up the human connections (based on trust, mutual understanding and shared values and behaviors) that make up your company’s social capital — a critical challenge in the age of globalization, free agency and the virtual workplace.

Understanding the New Currency of Business

by Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck

In today’s information-rich business world, the scarcest resource is not talent or technology — it’s attention. Managers face a double challenge: to learn how to get and hold the attention of employees and consumers and to learn when to parcel out their own valuable attention. This summary shows how capturing, managing and holding attention is key to the success of your business.